NONPARAMETRIC KERNEL‐BASED SEQUENTIAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
Authors:
- Laszlo GyorfiLGLaszlo Gyorfi
- Gabor LugosiGLGabor Lugosi
- Frederic UdinaFUFrederic Udina
- 29 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Mathematical Finance
- Vol. 16 (2) , 337-357
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to introduce sequential investment strategies that guarantee an optimal rate of growth of the capital, under minimal assumptions on the behavior of the market. The new strategies are analyzed both theoretically and empirically. The theoretical results show that the asymptotic rate of growth matches the optimal one that one could achieve with a full knowledge of the statistical properties of the underlying process generating the market, under the only assumption that the market is stationary and ergodic. The empirical results show that the performance of the proposed investment strategies measured on pastnyseand currency exchange data is solid, and sometimes even spectacular.Keywords
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